- P.B. Shelley belonged to the: later generation of Romantic poets.
- The total span of Shelley’s life was about: 30 years.
- Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for the publication of: On the Necessity of Atheism.
- Who called Shelley, “an ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminuous wings in vain”? Matthew Arnold.
- Adonis is a Pastoral Elegy written on the death of: Keats.
- Shelley’s Defense of Poetry is a rejoinder to: Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of poetry.
- Shelley’s death was caused by drowning.
- “Nothing of him that doth fade, / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange.” These lines were inscribed upon the tomb of Shelley. These lines were borrowed from: Ariel’s song in The Tempest.
- “life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, / Stains the white radiance of Eternity / until Death tramples it to fragments, die.” lines from: Adonais.
- “We look before and after, / And pine for what is not: … Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.” lines from: To a Skylark.
- Referring to Adonis, Shelley said, “I have dipped my pen in consuming fire for his destroyers.” Who were these destroyers? The Editors of both Quarterley Review and Blackwood’s Magazine.
- To whom is Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam dedicated? Jane Claimont
- To whom is Shelley’s The Cenci dedicated? Leigh Hunt.
- What kind of play is The Cenci? A tragedy.
- How many Acts are there in The Cenci? Five.
- How many Cantos are there in Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam? 12.
- How many Acts are there in Shelley’s play Prometheus Unbound? Four
- From Which source Shelley got the idea of writing Prometheus Unbound? Aeschylus.
- How many Acts are there in Shelley’s play Oedipus Tyrannus? Two
- Where is the scene of Oedipus Tyrannus by Shelley laid? Thebes.
- How many Parts are there in Shelley’s The Sensitive Plant? Three
- Which work of Shelley has the sub-title, The Spring of Solitude? Alastor.
- “I change but I can not die” What is it that changes but does not die according to a poem by Shelley? The Cloud.
- Shelley’s Ariel to Miranda was inspired by Shakespeare’s: The Tempest.
- “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” lines from: Ode to the West Wind.
- What is Shelley’s O World! O Life! O Time!? A lyric.
- Shelley’s Masque of Anarchy is: A satire.
- Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem? Alastor.
- “I fall upon the thorns of Life! I bleed! / A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed / One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.” lines from: Ode to the West Wind.
- “Smiling they live, and call life pleasure: / To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.” lines from: Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples.
P. B. Shelley – One Liner
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